Since Mr. Wonderful and I started married life out broke as a joke (but weren't laughing), we had to learn to improvise to make things work.
Want to see an early example of that?
You do?
Great! I was gonna show it to you, anyway!
Ta da! One day back in 1984, while I was napping, Mr. Wonderful unpacked several boxes in … [Read more...]

Way back in September, I posted that I had wired together some bed springs to make a wreath. Check it out here.
I also stated that until I could find a solution for "keeping it round" when hung, it would stay on the floor in my office.
Which it did.
For months.
Under a chair.
Gathering dust and cat hair.
Ewww.
I tried … [Read more...]

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I know I did. We celebrated it with Mr. Wonderful's parents who drove five hours on Christmas Day to be with us. My Father-in-law is an interim pastor at a church in Kalispell and has a late night Christmas Eve service...hence the drive on Christmas Day.
Mr. Wonderful and I spent the morning … [Read more...]

So, each morning I sit at my computer and wonder what I'm going to blog about. Some days this is hard because I haven't done anything extraordinary the day before. Because, you know, life as a 52 year-old can be kinda...well...dull.
Yesterday, I did something extraordinary. Not in the bigger-than-life kind of extraordinary, but … [Read more...]

When I blurted out to my husband, this morning, that I had no idea what to blog about today, he suggested I write about these:
It's no secret, by now, that I LOVE advertising. I think I may have mentioned it a few times. When I saw these two drawer fronts in an antique store, I knew I had to have them. I had no idea what I was going to … [Read more...]

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Hi, I'm Jean. I live in historic Butte, Montana in a Craftsman home built in 1920. This blog is all about my adventures (and sometimes misadventures) in updating and decorating my house with antiques and vintage goods I find at garage sales, thrift stores, estate sales or wherever cool things from the past are waiting to be discovered.